Friday, May 04, 2018

Confirmed! Cambridge Analytica gives birth to Emerdata

On Wednesday, May 2, ITRealms gathered that owners of Cambridge Analytica told media it was shutting down with immediate and liquidating its business.

This, ITRealms had
since discovered may have been a cover up to douse the tension the data
exposure and attendance controversy brought to Cambridge Analytica, following
being at the center of a political firestorm leaked by a former staffer on data-harvesting
campaign of some 87 million Facebook users.

Investigations by correspondent, showed that Cambridge Analytica
has since been discovered to be the parent organization SCL Elections, whereas
Emerdata has same office location with Cambridge Analytica.

According to reports by The
Register, the UK's official registrar of businesses and organizations,
Companies House, lists
an active company named Emerdata Limited as being headquartered at the
same offices as SCL Elections and run by much of the same management and
investors as Cambridge Analytica. It even describes itself as a "data
processing, hosting and related activities" organization.

Dr Alexander Taylor, who was appointed a director of
Emerdata on March 28, was hitherto the acting CEO and data wizard Dr Alexander
Taylor. Julian Wheatland is an Emerdata director who is also a director within
the SCL network of organizations.

Whereas, Messrs Jennifer and Rebekah Mercer were listed as
directors of Emerdata, and were the daughters of ultra-wealthy businessman
Robert Mercer, who created and bankrolled Cambridge Analytica.

ITRealms reports
that billionaire Bob was said to have given tens of millions of dollars to
rightwing political efforts. Even as Jennifer and Rebekah were alleged also to
have had hands in Cambridge Analytica.

ITRealms further
gathered that Emerdata was founded in mid-2017, but became actively operation
on the wake of controversies surrounding Cambridge Analytica by early in the
year.

Chuks Egbune with additional reports by Shaun
Nichols in San Francisco